Nemo James Re-Releases "The Workhouse Child" in Support of the Campaign Against Child Slavery
Released in 1992 by EMI and highly praised by music industry insiders, Nemo James's song "The Workhouse Child" was chosen to be record of the week by BBC Radio 2 but banned at the last minute by management. Now the song is back with a video message stronger than ever.
DUBROVNIK, Croaita, July 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The pretense for banning the song was that "a song about the workhouse is not relevant to today's music". However in the introduction to Nemo's new video he asked you to watch it and decide for yourself if it is still relevant.
It is estimated that 200 million children worldwide are trapped by child slavery and nearly half of them work in hazardous conditions, 73 million being children under 10 years old. The message behind "The Workhouse Child" is more relevant today that it was in Victorian Britain now that our world is dependant on globalization and the provision of cheap goods supplied on the back of child slavery.
The first verse of the song is chilling, and gives an idea of its direction, carried emotionally by James's vocal and acoustic guitar work, "Behind the cold and tear-stained door, sitting on the cold stone floor a workhouse child lives alone, where he comes from no one's sure, he commits the crime of being poor and dreams of parents he's never known"
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